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October 22, 2013

Phillip Atondo wins at Octoberfest

Central Valley R/C Raceway hosted the Octoberfest this weekend. TLR’s Phillip Atondo TQ’d the 1/8 Nitro Buggy class and was the only one to go the extra lap in qualifying. Race went deep into the night and track changed a lot with the moisture coming up and under the lights. At the start of the 30 minute buggy main Atondo made early mistakes as he dropped back to about 5th witch allowed Tyler Vik and Austin Blair to get out front. Vik and Blair were battling which allowed Atondo to reel them in. Atondo got by Blair and was setting his sights on Vik who was running a smooth race. Just after the halfway mark Atondo caught Vik and they would swap positions with a great battle and Atondo being patient to get around Vik. In the last 5 minutes of the race Vik crashed in the big rhythm section witch allowed Atondo to get by and pull away for the win.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

October 22, 2013

Miguel wins Modified TC at Portuguese Touring Series

Hugo Miguel wins Modified TC at Portuguese Touring Series

The first round of the Portuguese Touring Series was held at the Monsanto track. The sugar-watered track and nice weather made for good racing all weekend in the Modified and Stock classes that were run very similar to the ETS rules. In the Modified class qualifying ARC driver Hugo Miguel was the man to beat as he won 3 out of the 4 rounds. João Miguel Martinho and Filipe Costa tried to put some pressure into Hugo, with João TQ’ing one round, but it wasn’t enough to beat Hugo’s performance. The finals were no different from qualifying with Hugo transforming his TQ into an overall win, followed by Filipe Costa and Miguel Martinho.

Thanks Jorge Simões for sending the report.

October 22, 2013

Bawue Cup 2013/2014 Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Bawue Cup 2013/2014 was held at the MCC Konstanz club in Southern Germany. 62 drivers from Germany, Switzerland and Austria attended in seven classes making for loads of action on and off the track. Winner in Touring Car Modified was Tim Wahl from the MCG-Strohgäu club followed by Dionys Stadler and Marco Kaufmann, both from the MCC Konstanz club. After qualifying Tim made his intentions clear to win the class and he later went on to win two A-final legs in style handing him the day’s win. Behind him the race was on for the remaining places on the podium. In the end Dionys put himself in second place with a first and a second position in front of Marco. Marco prevailed himself against Julian Borowski.

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October 22, 2013

EJ Evans wins at 4th Annual TOP Gun Challenge

EJ Evans wins the 4th Annual TOP Gun Challenge

The 4th annual TOP Gun Challenge at Norcal Hobbies was run last weekend. The race is put on by TOP Racing and Norcal Hobbies that follows a Top Gun movie theme. Past winner have included Hayato Matsuzaki and Rick Hohwart and this year’s race saw over 120 entries and is unique as first place trophies are fighter pilot helmets. The Open Modified class is ran Reedy style with 8 rounds of heads up racing. The winner gets an automatic invite to the 2014 Reedy Race of Champions Invitational Class. This year it was TOP Racing’s EJ Evans who took home the victory. Evans won in dominating fashion winning all of his 8 rounds. Second place went to 2013 Reedy Open Mod champion Ethan Erchinger (Xray) and third place to 2013 Reedy Open Mod finalist Lex Tyler (Yokomo). Beside the Open Modified class several other classes were run Sportsman Modified, 17.5T Expert and Sportsman, VTA, Mini and Expert Nitro.

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October 22, 2013

TD North East Indoor Champs – Announcement

The Team Durango North East Indoor Champs will take place at the Maximus R/C Raceway in York, Maine on November2nd and 3rd. The race is held in 1/8th Open Buggy, 1/10th Open Buggy and several 2WD and 4WD SC classes and will see the attendance of World-class drivers such as Travis Amezcua, Matt Olson and Carson Wenimont along some of the best local drivers in Northern New England. More information can be found here.

October 22, 2013

Pro Stock Series season finale – Report

As a result of a joint venture between Shepherd Micro Racing and German Serpent distributor 2-Speed the Pro Stock Series was created as a follow-up series of the popular Hobby Cup which was run and supported by Shepherd for the past 10 years. The series features regional races all across Germany with a grand final being held at the end of the season to determine the overall winners. This year the final took place at the beautiful track of the Wiesbaden Mini Car Club in the centre of Germany. Practise started on Saturday with all participants trying to find the best setup for their cars. In the 1/10th scale class newly crowned European Champion 40+ Bernd Hasselbring and Hobby Cup Champion 2011 Marcus May were the favourites for the overall title, while Alex Kempe – normally pitman for Patrick Schäfer – showed a great performance too and joined the list of possible race winners for the prestigious final. In the 1/8th scale class it was clear that the race and the championship would be decided between Serpent’s Patrick Gassauer and Shepherd’s Timo Schröder as both clocked clearly the fastest laptimes.

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October 21, 2013

ROAR Region 8 Championship – Report

This year, the Region 8 Championship race was held at Fastlane Raceway in Blue Springs, MO, near Kansas City. This years event ended up being around 150 entries and included several of the Midwest’s finest drivers. The track surface consisted of hard packed top soil and had medium grip. The layout was pretty cool and included an option step up in the centre where you could go double-double or single-triple. The race format this year was a little different from years past and included four six minute qualifiers with single eight minute main events. Qualifying was random order. There were four rounds and a total of 20 heats. After four rounds of qualifying, 2WD qualifying was very close. Taylor Larsen, Cody Hollis, Nick Gibson and Mitchel Gardner all TQ’ed a round, which left it up to the finishing orders of their other rounds to determine the overall TQ.

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October 21, 2013

Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup Rd1 – Report

The 1st round of the Xray Challenge Moravia and Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Arena last weekend. The meeting was run in five different electric on-road classes and after Friday’s practice qualifying started on Saturday morning following two additional hours of practice with the finals also being held on Saturday. The electric off-road class saw Martin Hudy taking the TQ and race win using Martin Bayer’s Euros winning XB4 buggy. Martin had to use the precious car due to a last minute decision to run off-road and he only swapped tyres but did no setup work at all. Joining Martin on the podium were Petr Sekula and Honza Slezak.

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